Eat, drink and be merry!!

What a wonderful night! Thanks to our very qualified babysitters (grandad and granna) my lovely wife and myself got to experience a wonderful evening with Dave Matthews and Tim reynolds. Dave Matthews has been my favorite artist for about 10+ years now and his music means so much to me. His music has really been with me through happy times, sad times, lonley times and has really touched my life as well as my brother and sisters life. It really is amazing how much music means to us a human beings. What a powerful force! I've also been blessed to play with a dave, David Greer who is also a amazing artist. Music is so important to me and I'm proud to be a musician myself. Thanks again for the incredible night Dave!

Turkey and tears

I'm standing here at walmart at 11:45 pm in brenham Texas on thanksgiving thinking of the days past events and tying to put them all in order in my head. About the same time my brother Caleb was embracing my little ten week old for the first time my maw-maw was embracing her lord and savior for the first time. Crazy really, the way it is. Enjoy your reward maw-maw, I'll see you someday! I promise!

Happy chef!

This time of year always confirms and renews my love for my chosen profession. The smells, the sounds, the beautiful roasted bird and of course a day set aside just for eating makes me fall in love again with cooking. So fire up those ovens and let's get to cooking! For me...there is no place I would rather be than beside my mom as her sous chef. She is the chef that inspires me. Happy thanksgiving.

Time to eat!

You can almost smell the turkey roasting in the oven right now so before we starting feasting away I just wanted to say how thankful I am for all the wonderful things and people in my life. I could mention them all for days but most of all I am very thankful for my wife Cindy and my little booger beth. Heres to all you out there. Enjoy every minute, drink in every second, and have a very happy thanksgiving. I love you all! Brad

My 2 favorite months

Fall, leaves, snow, turkey, family, travel, giving, gifts, movies, crackle of the fire, laughing, excitement, traditions, rest, cornbread stuffing, stories, nation lampoons Christmas vacation, a Christmas story, Dallas cowboys, Christmas trees, stockings, marshmallows, kitchens, christmas songs, ..... I could go on for days!!

Keep on trying

I recently interviewed for a higher position at whole foods and even though I felt great about the interview and I gots lots of good feedback I didn't get the job. I was a little bummed at first but I quickly remembered how lucky I am to have a sous chef position in this great company and also that when the right job for me comes I'll be ready.
Also.... Happy halloween to all my family and friends. I love this time of year and can wait to see you all over the next couple of months!! Love you all! - brad

What a great week!

Last week was an amazing week for the Hall family with Holly (my wife's sister) and baby maddy here to meet and love on my little sweetpea. Beth Anne is very lucky to have such a wonderful extended family and we look forward to the holidays and the special new meanings and excitement they bring looking through my daughter's eyes. Also it was great to have granna down to and I'm very thankful that granna babysat and let my lovely bride and I go out on a date!

Bethany update: little girl will be 7 weeks old on friday and she is still growing like a weed. She's starting to make cute baby noises and smiling more each day. Each day she becomes more precious to me and I am so in love with that sweet little girl. She also wants to be self reliant like her mama, she is so much like her mom... I love it!